The Center for Poetry and Poetics

Special Issue
EZRA POUND AND AMERICAN IDENTITY
Edited by Hugh Witemeyer

CONTENTS

Hugh Witemeyer, “Introduction: The 20th International Ezra Pound Conference”

PART ONE: AN AMERICAN LIFE

Tim Redman, “Ezra Pound and American Populism: The Enduring Influence of Hailey, Idaho”

Alec Marsh, “Homer Pound’s Small Boy and Pound Scholarship”

Homer Somers with William Pratt, “Ezra Pound in the DTC: A Personal Memoir”

Hsiu-ling Lin, “Reconsidering Ezra Pound’s Treason Charge in the Light of American Constitutional Law”

PART TWO: AMERICAN CULTURE

Denis Donoghue, “A Packet for Ezra Pound”

Ira B. Nadel, “The American Image of Ezra Pound”

Sean Francis, “‘Now for a Large-Mouthed Product’: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Promotion”

Peter Makin, “Pound, Confucian Sincerity, and America”

Roxana Preda, “Social Credit in America: A View from Pound’s Economic Correspondence, 1933-1940”

PART THREE: AN AMERICAN POEM

Burton Hatlen, “Pound’s Cantos and the Epic Mode in American Poetry, 1915-1931″

Ronald Bush, “Pound, Emerson, and Thoreau: The Pisan Cantos and the Politics of American Pastoral”

David Ten Eyck, “Representing the American Republic: Ezra Pound’s Adams and Coke Cantos”

PART FOUR: AMERICAN TRIBUTES

Mary de Rachewiltz, “Mary Barnard: ‘Athene Cd/ Have Done with More Sex Appeal’”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “What’s Happening in Hailey, Idaho”